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I am extremely sorry you experienced that. You should not feel obliged to reveal them; I would not myself ask to know what they said even if I were your pastor. The important thing is you are free from that, you have embraced our Lord, God and Savior Jesus Christ, you are in a relationship...

I am not aware of any immediate concern regarding his health. And his recent move to the right, with the ban on cosmetic mutilation of the reproductive anatomy in the controversially titled Dignitas Infinita, and his increasing praise for Pope Benedict XVI despite his dismantling of Pope...

Indeed. My thought is that it might be possible to salvage the non-cardboard elements and replace cardboard elements, since it is a fantastically inexpensive building material, and if that is the case, it might also be possible for it to be relocated or even stored, so as to function as an...

Indeed; I should have clarified that I did not mean to include Sydney, as we have talked about them before. For my part, it rubs me the wrong way that the clergy in their cathedral wear no vestments at all, not even a clerical collar. This is actually a violation of the canons of the Second...

My view is that denominations that do ordain women should do it right. I would take a very cynical view of a hypothetical denomination which engages in some token ordination of women but then relied on passive-aggressive coercion to discourage them, since such an act still could risk a...

You did and I was horrified and disgusted by it. It reminded me of what happened to my friend Rev. Bolton, where the seminary took her money and she completed all the coursework but then they decided “whoops, we can’t give you the degree because you’re a woman.”

I am inclined to agree, with a few limited exceptions: There are some traditional Christians in the Bay Area and they tend to associate mainly with other traditional Christians. So someone from Berkeley who was from one of those communities could date within them and not have the problems you...

Indeed, the rise of helicopter parenting. That said I have a good friend who grew up in the 1990s and graduated high school in the years following 9/11 and he did not experience helicopter parenting but had a very good childhood. Then within the a two year period 9/11 happened, his...

The problem is you are over stressing verse 27 in isolation from verses 28 and 29, and implying a connection between the warning and verse 26 which is contradicted the fat that verses 20 through 26 are also represented in the Synoptic Gospels.

What it means is that the Body and Blood of our Lord are food for our spirit, which is correct, and that we are united with the Church, which is also the Body of Christ, by partaking of His Body. When we partake of His Body and Blood, we are partaking of both His glorified humanity and His...

The problem with that statement is that there have been numerous Eucharistic miracles in the Eastern Orthodox Church and the Roman Catholic Church where people weak in the faith have seen or otherwise experienced the Eucharist as the actual Body and Blood of our Lord. The belief is rather...

This is a very good post! I have some additional information I wish to share with you in felloewship (a part of me wishes you had posted this in General Theology since I agree with you and would in that manner be more able to participate), but I understand why you did not, as the trolling by...

Oh yes, that one is profoundly frustrating, although the problem is of course it is typically said in the context of bereavement, and so it cannot be easily corrected.

On a global scale Methodism is quite small; the largest denominations, communions and denominational families are Roman Catholicism, the Eastern Orthodox, the Anglican Communion, the Lutherans and the Reformed. And the Oriental Orthodox are in the no. 7 or 8 spot. It is my hope that the...

I myself would likely have joined the Roman Catholic Church had Pope Benedict XVI remained the Pope, because i was attracted by the idea of being able to serve both the Novus Ordo and the Traditional Latin Mass in any parish I might be assigned to thanks to summorum pontificum, and there was a...

Well as you know, I have always regarded your ministry as valid! And I have made a point to express as much in this thread. And I hope that members in Traditional Theology will follow the tradition of ecumenical courtesy that has characterized this forum and recognize your status as a...

For the record, here is the most complete version of the Greek Orthodox Divine Liturgy of St. Mark, as documented (but not revised) by St. Ma We don’t! The Eastern Orthodox only accept the first seven of the Roman Catholic councils, plus a few councils the Catholics reject: the Quinisext...

The version of the Divine Liturgy of St. Mark contained on New Advent is very strange, and they provide no manuscript attestation of it. It is not the current 1893 recension by the Church of Alexandria, and it is also not consistent with the oldest texts (the Strasbourg fragment and St...

That’s totally untrue…

And unfortunately this has also become increasingly common among larger Western businesses as amoral atheists have taken over the boardroom and upper management at a great many companies. For example, so many consumer-facing companies have cynically embraced sexual perversion because the...